skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak to the technical nature of the work, as I don't work in the field, but the last-named author, likely the advisor, seems to be a respectable researcher.

> I have served on the committee of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation 2017-2022, and am a past President of the Australasian Society for General Relativity and Gravitation and a past President of the New Zealand Institute of Physics. I served 8 years on the editorial board of Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2012-2019.

http://www2.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/~dlw24/

So while your criticism may well be justified, you make it sound like this is a fringe paper, which I don't think is the case. So instead of opening a meta discussion about what physics papers get posted & upvoted on HN and why (which is hardly novel), I'd be much more interested in how big the issues you're mentioning are and whether the results of the paper could be salvageable. I at least do think that Wiltshire's research is interesting and he has made good points[0] about the challenges of coarse-graining spacetime structures and where & why the underlying assumptions of LCDM might fail to hold.

[0]: See e.g. the lecture notes on https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3787
You bring up a good point, it definitely a difficult environment. However there’s a lot of techniques for isolating sounds in a noisy environment.

Getting clean audio from performers at concerts is only moderately challenging these days, with plenty of great examples to point to. So I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the idea.
Most expensive?

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings_by_country.js...

Some things are pretty cheap compared to other countries, meat for instance
> I don't remember last time I had to reinstall Windows unless upgrading in place is considered reinstalling. I keep hearing people reinstalling and I don't understand why.

Same. Had a work Windows 10 install that happily chugged along for years, on a very old machine with a spinning disk and no performance deterioration.
The relatively short validity period of gift cards makes them more profitable for the issuer because a substantial minority of them are not redeemed before the expiry date.
There were 91 occurrences of the word "rust" in 264 comments so far.
Unfortunately more expensive than a plane+hotel and has to be booked well in advance. It's worth the experience, at least for me, but it's not a real alternative.
It think it is every sci-fiction dreamer to teach a robot to love.

I don't think AI will think conventionally. It isn't thinking to begin with. It is weighing options. Those options permutate and that is why every response is different.
It wasn't really. It was just another closed platform. BeBox had a real struggle to boot anything but BeOS and the platform was so poorly documented that other than the manuals that came with it and the few brief descriptions in Be Newsletters, there is no real public documentation about any of the hardware. It was also smoke and mirrors, it barely worked in MP mode because the 603's they used didn't do proper MP. There was a software process that had to work around this, which then slowed down the OS in general. The dual processor Mac's with 604's actually ran rings around the BeBox performance wise.
Conservation or not, that TV has been given out by its owner so there is no theft involved. Neither has it been moved out of the country by colons or illegaly.

And it is a damn TV. A big one for sure but it isn't Moctezuma II headdress nor are those Devatas carved from Banteay Srei cambodian temple.
It really isn't.

Tickets are not that hard to get and you are not required to do anything once you have one.

I believe some core orga members (aka The people contracting the venue, getting permissions and renting equipment etc) are guaranteed a ticket but almost everybody else has to buy their own.

The fact that the "hacker space community" gets preferential treatment is very much intended.
Wasn't that all security
Some of the work from Tinycorp is: https://github.com/tinygrad/7900xtx
So you're saying that by logging into icloud.com and clicking on the "Find My" app, my web browser is downloading encrypted location reports from Apple's servers, and my web browser is decrypting them locally?
That data visualization is awful.

- The list of values should be a table.

- The bar chart on the left should have discrete x-axis sections for each possible or encountered error code.

- The line chart on the right should be a bar chart, or just a table as you have below (but label the columns!)
This is usually a misunderstanding of risk. I think the last stats I read were that per 18,000,000 miles of air travel for 200 people, you'd expect 1 extra person to end up with cancer. Over a baseline risk of 25% of people getting cancer, that's negligible.
This lady developed an Italian accent and gesturing after a stroke.
Animals will probably evolve to speak well before AI figures out what animals are saying.
Not sure he explicitly said that, but he’s said that there’s a bunch of technical debt he wants to fix through refactoring etc, which will be v0.23, I’m not sure path goes to V1 next (at least directly) but it may. He also stopped accepting donations in Jan saying that he felt like donations came with expectations. I’m not saying it’s not reasonable, just that the whole ethos behind PocketBase is “I’m building this, you folks are all welcome to use it, but I don’t owe you anything” (completely fairly).

Asking “will it survive” is the wrong question. It’s already there, works, and is used by thousands of people. Whether it gets updates or not depends entirely on whether Gani wants to and is able to keep updating it. No one can answer that except Gani, and he’s saying “no promises”.
> Can you share with us knowledge of things in Sicily going to shit?

Some 20% sunken economy, country top 5 for tax evasion, country record for unemployment, country record for illegal work, country negative record for education... shall I go on and add that on top of this everything is managed by organized crime?
When I click on a date on that website, e.g. 16.01. I see tickets for 69.90€ on the coach wagon from Berlin to Paris.
Exactly it is all expressive.
Indeed that is the case there but you have to evaluate every journey based on a number of factors.

Recently I had to get a train 250km in Italy and it would have been quicker, cheaper and less stressful to fly to London and back due to the problems.
At this moment, Honey addon is still in Firefox and Chrome's catalog. Have reported them at both places and gave 1-star as well.
Have you used Chrome for Android? It's absolutely awful and forced me to switch to another browser. All tabs are opened in a tab group, sometimes they will open a new tab group. Very confusing behaviour. The desktop implementation is good though.
> autocomplete

is rarely useful to me, I just type things out.

I'm just quicker this way. By that I mean that my stream of thought just flows, when thinking about autocompletion is like in another "brain space" which makes my mind stutter.

I don't know if I'm wall-clock quicker for real, especially as I'm not that fast a typer (certainly not as fast as I want to be) but the mental exercise is annoying enough that I prefer the smooth tarmac of typing it all vs the pebbled trail of jumping back and forth between thinking about the output of typing and autocompleting.

If some autocomplete produces a dropdown list the thing it does help me is a quick feedback as to whether I made a typo, but I basically never tab the autocompletion out.

Only time I do tab out autocompletions is on the shell, and mostly only for paths.

> language servers

I do kind of see the appeal e.g VScode's invoking this inline view of a method implementation right at the call site. In practice I never use it.

Another one is inlay hints in Vim, e.g with type information for dynamic languages (e.g Ruby when using RBS) or to correctly feed autocompletion.

What I don't like is how heavyweight LSPs "feel".

> and recently copilot

I tried Copilot a few times and it was a) slow and b) mediocre.

Slow is stupendously because it feels like I'm driving an autobahn, except littered with 10kph roadbumps.

Mediocre as it sometimes produces code that works, but most of the time is either wrong or flat out doesn't work; even for boilerplate its output is bad/inconsistent with the codebase/outright incorrect. So every time I have to enter a "review mode" state of mind and fix the damn thing, which ends up being slower than just fully typing the thing out in the first place.

> go-to-definition

:sp <leader>p lib/whatevs (backed by fzf) then /thething because codebases I work on are typically organised sensibly.

Or I just open a new tab and rg thething then vim thepath +:42

Unix as IDE is stupidly fast and powerfully flexible for me.

> Do you just remember every type and field in a codebase

Mostly, not everything but I do have a mental map to find things quickly with the above.

Rereading the above, I realise that maybe the takeaway is that I'm a "fixes radios by thinking" type of person, which means huge mental models and map of everything fit in my mind, then I reason it out and come up with a solution in my mind, and I just need to type it out as a final step in a sort of stream of thought way, so anything that gets between the mind and the characters appearing on screen is a major drag.

I don't think it is any worse or better than an IDE, it's just the way I work, and I've seen some people do crazy stuff crazy fast with IDEs/LSPs/LLMs just as well. It's just not my way of operation.
"AI accelerators" are at peak profitability right now. Within a few years, certainly by 2030, chip optimizations and improvements will see Raspberry Pis or your phone doing AI work.

I expect we may even aee AI cores on phones, by 2036.
I'm doing it right now. I left my job and created a game company during my sabbatical (https://galantrix.com). Feel free to drop by the company's Discord if you want to chat.

I don't know what to expect going forward. In my experience, as long as you can show that you're keeping your skills sharp, and have something to show for your year off, it can even work to your advantage. Taking one year off to spend your day playing Factorio probably wouldn't look as good to recruiters (although I can see people needing just that after a stressful run).

BTW, I'm near 50 with 20+ in FAANG/AAA Tech.
Doesn't this kind of argument work the other way around as well?

If we get rid of other considerations, and train travel could be more streamlined (strap a jet engine on a train, no need to gain altitude), then airplanes are absolutely uncompetitive on speed.
It can also be enabled in Firefox Beta with "browser.tabs.groups.enabled" but it's still a bit buggy there. Ironically, Firefox was the first browser to have tab groups with Firefox 4 until they removed it because "nobody used it".
Of course not, it's for people who can't spend more than five bucks a night.
I travel from Zurich to Hannover fairly regularly (about 7 hour train journey) and it generally costs 59 to 89 EUR each way first class, booked supersaver (fixed train) a week or two in advance with a 1st class Bahncard 25. The return is usually in the region of 140 to 160 EUR.

From my point of view, DB trains are cheap, and first class is reasonably comfortable with a power point and meals ordered to your seats.

Punctuality is a different matter of course.

(I just checked the prices for a late January return trip I'll be doing, and right now it's 100 EUR return, 53 / 47 for the legs.)
I was reading this whole thread as about technical accomplishment and non-nvidia GPU capabilities, not business. So I think you're talking about different definitions of "Success". Definitely counts, but not what I was reading.
A 100G file was ok in those editors even with syntax highlighting. That is an extreme because saving did take some time but there are ways to optimize for that would it ever become popular. IMHO 640K per file is enough for everybody.

dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=100k| tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9\n' | fold -w 130 > largefile.c
If they are good at what they do, I think they are simply good at keeping things in mind, what everything is called, developing a good mental model.

Personally I often write code without LSP, and use pure text completions with Emacs (words of opened buffers) and cycle through them. I know the language well enough, or I look things up in their documentation until I know them well enough. Occassionally I will also use LSP, if it exists and is easily configured and works well.

Go to definition: If I don't have it, I develop a map of the project in my mind where I find what in a project. I have also observed how projects become not so well organized, when people rely too much on always being able to "navigate through code". One does not need to pay much attention to module naming or class names and the like, if one never na igates the file tree to go to the file. Sometimes I have to rgrep/ripgrep.
I did mistaken those, thank you for pointing that out. My point remains that science operates in the real world, where decisions often have to be made based on incomplete evidence, rather than waiting for certainty.
Oh, epic! Thanks for taking the time to double check :)
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There are lots of politicians like Julius too.
More players in the market the better. AI shouldn't be owned by one business.
I've been using copilot-mode in emacs for probably a couple of years.
I'm also using firefox/ublock but I'm getting the mentioned agressively-blocked page. I'm also using a VPN, if that makes any difference.

I also see the extremely light "Press & Hold" message to prove I am not a bot. I missed it the first few times I loaded the page because my eyes just don't pick up on things like that very easily (I'm the guy who turns the brightness up in video games with a lot of shadow). Not only does this press & hold action seem to be ineffective, but they made a message that some humans have trouble seem to keep bots out? Smdh.

Which is disappointing, because I've ordered from digikey countless times, both for work and for personal projects. There should be absolutely no reason they clamp down on people using adblockers since they are highly profitable already. Guess I'll be looking for a different parts source.
Some people have a low bar for fun, for example, learning something new that connects to something they already knew, and saying to themselves, "Neat!"
Doesn't work for all of us. I can peacefully fall asleep from the noise of a CFM on an Airbus. On a train, rickety being chucked around all the time and always too hot, nope.

I can do 10h on a plane fine. 3h on a train does me in every time.
It moves photos between local files, dropbox, and google drive, depending on how you configure it.

From a quick look at the code, so far you can achieve the same with exiftool if you mount those sources as local drives. There isn't much else yet, but it wouldn't take a lot of work to hook this up with a vision models to add some labels or metadata.

For example, I normally run the following to import files from an SDCard to a local folder and organize them by date:

exiftool -r -d ~/Pictures/%Y-%m/ '-FileName<DateTimeOriginal' -o . /Volumes/LEICA\ M/DCIM/100LEICA

A bit off-topic: I have the same problem that you face with shooting film with Leica and manual lens.

It would be interesting to see if there are tools to automatically populate metadata based on the content:

1) field of view + rough estimation of lens data can be computable directly from perspective cues

2) this can be narrowed down to specific objectives either:

2a) using a short list (all objectives a specific photographer owns), or

2b) using enough lens data + images (e.g. something that DXO or Adobe could do)

While I am skeptical about doing (2b), it should be possible to do (2a). A middle ground is to manually label a few images and use semi-supervised learning to propagate them to the rest of one's photo collection.
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Wages are a lagging indicator. Basically everyone who makes their money working and not off investments gets screwed roughly to the tune of the inflation rate. Eventually the economy reached equilibrium but in the intervening years everyone's discretionary spending gets redirected into the pockets of asset owners rather than quality of life improvements.
There is a difference between changing administrative things versus fighting physics.
>On our planet, it was Bernoulli, Euler and Gauss who discovered this math.

You don't say. Newton must have been sick that day.
I also found it extremely helpful that the author virtue signalled to agree with me, so I know whether I am supposed to like it or not.
Yes, it does, but it may be somewhat limited. If you need AVX2 float32 kernels for cosine distance, you are in luck. If you want dynamic dispatch from 200+ SIMD kernels across 4 generations of AVX-512 (Skylake-X, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids, and AMD Genoa), AVX2, Arm NEON, Arm SVE, and SVE2 for different mixed-precision distance functions, you may find other options more capable :)
I’m sure they’ll get to the bottom of it!
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The TV was bought and used by a business, it doesn't get much more "pro" than that (someone should remind Apple's marketing team). But we could argue about semantics all day, humans make vaguely inaccurate statements all the time.

> Where does one palpate urgency?

Most frequently in metaphors. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=urgency+was+pa...
> I'm not enough of a cultural relativist to believe there's a civilization that cares more about the shape ∞ than the shape ◯.

Maybe these are "logarithmic" beings, as opposed to us "linear" beings? The lemniscate is based on geometric mean, which is basically multiplicative mean and/or mean in log-space -- as opposed to the additive mean in linear space.

If we assume we are linear beings good at intuitive addition but somewhat bad at intuitive multiplication, there could exist beings which live in log-space and whose minds are based on multiplication. Their circle would be the lemniscate.
Served in a liquid infused with boiled bones of lesser animals. You've got to love the level of hypocrisy of organised religion as well.
1) Volunteers (who worked 15+ hrs on last congress for free) get two tickets with priority.

2) Hackerspaces get a number of tickets with priority, thru replicating tickets (you can only buy one per day). The amount of replicating tickets given depends on size of area (a hackerspace can be tasked with giving vouchers to relevant people in their city). There's a limited quantity of these tickets, separate from amount of vouchers.

The main point of the congress is primarily to bring the chaos crowd together, then the rest of interested parties. That model may not fit your vision, but chaos events year after year succeed at not leaving out the core crowd.

Also, this year I have bought 2 tickets on public sale for friends without issues (best way to get tickets is to group up with your friends).

It's always taken high effort to buy tickets for c3, needing to be exactly on time (not 30 seconds late) to each sale round.

37c3 was an exception due to low sales, caused by skepticism in the event returning after years of not happening. This year that trust was regained and buying tickets became hard again.
For the love of god, stop building cups into Linux distros
Nearly nobody needs it installed by default. Its time to send it to the optional-land retirement home with the dialup drivers
Intuitively we are the only mammal walking upright so at the middle hinge, there must be some very strong muscle keeping us from folding over?
So, your argument is that AI does not replace programmers, it just... replaces programmers?
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Let me be the void.
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Getting in the file name was kind of easy. But I meant adding it visually in the pdf guidance so readers could tell. Just numbers in the lower left corner. Or maybe right.

The guideline was available via url so the filename couldn’t change.
https://archive.md/NFXvI
You mean the shareholders who extracted the money over the years which is now missing when we come to the place in Moore‘s Law where the investment requirements are going through the roof?
Eh, or they want their names in the news for ‘doing something’, even if it’s ultimately pointless.
Some phones have TPUs on them today...
> not-fuel-efficient vehicles that were at least cheap to repair.

You don’t need to drive that much for fuel inefficiency to get really expensive. Even 10k miles/year which is well below average at 10MPH vs 30MPH @ 3$ / gallon is an extra 2,000$ / year, and adjusted for inflation gas is currently fairly cheap. Inflation adjusted in 2011 and 2012 gas was over 5$/gallon.

We might see consistent low gas prices intended to delay the EV transition (or the could spike), but these cars were already old 15 years ago when the program happened.
Is "quantum geometry" a common way to say "shape of the wave function" in solid-state physics?

Here I was, thinking the article would be about a topic at the intersection of quantum mechanics and relativity…
Latin writers have been like "let's use Greek" at least since Virgil, so modern writers can be excused for getting their roots mixed up.
Thank you for the feedback. Given all the feedback from the others, and now yours, that the word is creating wrong expectations. I am leaning toward just changing it soon and seeing from there.
I mean it's Japanese for Fish, but yeah, perhaps we need a database of false cognates sorted by number-of-languages-that-consider-it-vulgar

As for Portuguese, GPTo3 tells me "depending on context it can mean “bastard,” “scumbag,” “dirty-minded jerk,” or imply that someone is a lecherous creep. It’s essentially an insult calling someone sleazy or untrustworthy."

Would you say that's about right?
Nearly four decades on and, like Jesus, ransomware won't die
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The ones buying gpus in pallets _really_ need the software to not be a worry. Software issues would ruin the entire operational life
It's an option for those on a tight budget aka "beggars can't be choosers". Hotels are a lot cheaper if you book a (fully) refundable stay months in advance instead of waiting until you have a ticket.
I believe you have good intentions, but someone would need to build it out and sell it. And it requires lots of maintenance. It’s too boring for an open source community.

There’s a whole industry that attempts to do what you do and there’s a reason why protocols keep getting punted back to pdf.

I agree it would be great to release structured representations. But I don’t think there’s a standard for that representation, so it’s kind of tricky as who will develop and maintain the data standard.

I worked on a decision support protocol for Ebola and it was really hard to get code sets released in Excel. Not to mention the actual decision gates in a way that is computable.

I hope we make progress on this, but I think the incentives are off for the work to make the data structures necessary.